FIAF drive-bys

Readers should note that the allegations that racial slurs were directed at Rep. Lewis have never been proved, as the irrepressible James Taranto writes in The Wall Street Journal. Yet the charges have stuck in the metropolitan consciousness, largely because they accord with the narrative of the Tea Party that has been peddled so far by the mainstream media: to wit, that it is a racist movement whose animus against Obama is fueled not by his politics, but by his blackness. Such a distortion of the movement’s defining temper was necessary in order to render its members unworthy of polite company; their portrayal as intolerant racists allowed the media to send Tea Partiers to political coventry, to confer on them the status of picturesque (yet repulsive) pariahs. Opponents were transformed, by cultural diktat, into “wing-nuts.” Ideological passion came to be seen, with a certain elitist aesthetic distaste, as “anger.” And the movement’s emphatic brand of libertarian-conservative politics was belittled as of the “fringe.”

Meanwhile, the Coffee Party brews on …. there’s something called Campus Coffee Weak Week. These kids are, like, so … like … deep. Did that kid call adults vapid?

Why, it seems that the AP has had to retract yet another bit of absolute proof that the CBC members were verbally assaulted with racist epithets by the Tea Partiers.

The AP reported that Rep. Heath Schuler said he was there and he heard the dreaded “N”-word being flung at the CBC members as they walked through the Tea Partiers in an attempt to incite an incident. Now they have retracted that story, after James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal tracked Rep. Schuler down and simply asked him about the event.

But when we phoned Shuler’s office this afternoon, press secretary Julie Fishman told us the local reporter misunderstood. According to Fishman, Shuler’s comments to the Times-News referred to the general tenor of the protests, not to the black congressmen’s specific allegations. Fishman said that Shuler was not walking with Cleaver and did not hear the “N-word.”

19 Comments on “FIAF drive-bys”

I’m sorry Carin, I had to stop when the bubble brain started babbling about the Citizens United decision.

I love the lefty mantra that having more money to spend equates into votes. That’s only true if you are like many of the fiity-tooers and believe whatever you hear without bothering to educate yourself and learn more.

If these kids are the future, then maybe they deserve what they’re getting with Lord Zero and his merry band of Kommunist Kossacks.

I am with Wiser Carin, she is saying you are a unfit cheep skate mother that would rather spend your money on yourself than your children. Because you are racist, and want to perpetuate the Neanderthal traits.

I see stuff like this and I wonder if I really want my kids going to college.

Send them to <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yyaphx9&quot; target="_blank"<Hillsdale, Carin! I think it’s the best undergrad in the country (it takes NO federal money, so the feds can’t influence the curriculum). Great conservative thinkers teach there, and they teach and demand high-level critical thinking skills. This is the school that, if I had kids, I’d be sending them to.